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red-flaggy

red-flaggy adjective: exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).

Adjective

red-flaggy (comparative red-flaggier (very rare) or more red-flaggy, superlative red-flaggiest (very rare) or most red-flaggy)

  1. (informal, rare) Exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).
    • It's the kind of glow that doesn't feel strange or weird or misguided or red-flaggy. Just a glow. Yes, I'm still nervous as hell, but I know I'm moving in the right direction, no matter what happens.2014, Patience Bloom, Romance Is My Day Job: A Memoir of Finding Love at Last, New York, NY: Penguin Group, →ISBN, page unknown
    • If you never show up at her house and are always dragging her to yours, they probably are pretty suspicious of you. Nothing is more red-flaggy than someone who doesn’t make an effort to get to know their partner’s friends.2018 April 18, Sophia Benoit, “You Might Be Guilty of This Dating Red Flag”, in GQ

Forms of red-flaggy

comparativemore red-flaggy
superlativemost red-flaggy
comparative (rare)red-flaggier
superlative (rare)red-flaggiest

Origin of red-flaggy

From red flag + -y.

Questions about red-flaggy

What does red-flaggy mean?
Red-flaggy means exhibiting or characterized by red flags (signs or signals that something is wrong).
What part of speech is red-flaggy?
Red-flaggy is an adjective.

Words near red-flaggy in the dictionary

  1. red-flag
  2. red-flagged
  3. red-flaggier
  4. red-flaggiest
  5. red-flagging
  6. red-flaggy
  7. red-flags
  8. red-flanked bluetail
  9. red-flanked bluetails
  10. red-flowering banana
  11. red-footed falcon

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